Gwangju is located in the southwest of South Korea and is considered the "hometown of culture and art" locally.

Li Hao and his family live not far from Songjeong Station. There is Gwangju Songjeong Bus Station nearby. You can take Songjeong No. 98 or No. 33 and get off at Gwangju Women's University Station, which takes about 30 minutes.

It is very convenient for nearby fans to go to the venue. The major teams don't have to worry about it. There are special buses to take them to the venue.

On the afternoon of October 23, all four teams entered the venue.

It took a long time to get familiar with the layout of the venue, rehearse for the appearance, record the pre-match show, pose in some middle-aged poses for publicity photos, etc.

Li Hao looked around. There were many busy staff here, and the equipment at the commentary desk was ready.

The lighting above the stadium is a more melancholic blue, which goes well with LCK, who are very melancholy right now.

Especially the KT group, when they looked up, they were surrounded by LPL players, like sheep among wolves.

In the center of the venue is the viewing area, which is also the largest area and can accommodate tens of thousands of people.

Behind the competition area are the three sculptures holding magic balls, echoing the theme song of the global finals. Viewed from a live angle, they are quite imposing and give people a majestic feeling.

Three large LED electronic displays cover the entire auditorium, allowing every spectator to have a clear view of the real-time game conditions.

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Li Hao walked with the team in the venue. He nodded secretly. The venue for the semi-finals was pretty decent, and it was taller than the Busan Convention and Exhibition Center.

Riot people turned on the machines on site and let the players try them out. This was preliminary debugging. When the game officially started, they would also debug it again before the game.

"Brother Hao, have you noticed that someone over there has been looking at you?"

"who?"

Flandre pursed her lips in the direction of KT:

"Over there."

"That young player from KT, Ucal."

"He just turned on the device and looked this way. Could it be that he couldn't wait to face you."

Li Hao raised his head and found nothing unusual.

Chris on the side said: "Maybe he wants to play a training match."

"KT has arranged training matches with all three of our families, and we will start playing tomorrow."

Flandre whispered:

"I heard from Zuo Wu that KT has scheduled a lot of training matches and they plan to practice hard before the semifinals."

"normal."

"KT is the only one left in the LCK now, and the Korean teams are fully supporting them. Once KT loses, they can only watch us fight the LPL civil war in Incheon. Of course the LCK wants to prevent this from happening."

"I feel that we don't need to take over KT's training matches. Our three LPL teams can just close the door and play training matches by ourselves. There is no need to play with KT at all."

"Haha, wouldn't that look too stingy?"

"..."

Li Hao listened to them silently without making a sound.

At this stage, although the benefits are not going to anyone else, no one is willing to give up the Summoner Trophy.

The thorn in S's side is also the biggest imaginary enemy of IG and RNG.

Everyone knows that Snake has the strongest hard power, so it is very possible for him to become a public enemy behind his back at such a moment.

For example, during the S6 era, SSG, ROX, and SKT all came from the same school.

But SSG and ROX developed female gun-assisted tactics, which they hid without telling SKT, causing SKT to almost overturn in the semifinals.

For the current four teams, winning the S8 Summoner's Cup is the ultimate goal.

Glory, bonus, fame...

The ultimate stage of the World Championship is the arena and the vanity fair.

In the final moments, a complex vortex formed.

In the stadium, IG’s coach Jin and KT’s coach ZanDarC (Wu Zongchang) were communicating in Korean, and they looked very familiar with each other.

When Li Hao saw this scene, he immediately felt very strange.

In the past S8, IG and KT went through a desperate struggle and a fierce battle.

The relationship between Jin Jingzhu and Wu Zongchang is definitely not that good.

There are no eternal friends, only eternal interests.

Perhaps in the eyes of many teams, Snake has become a more terrifying dragon than SKT used to be, a complete villain.

The evil dragon covered the sky and blocked out the sun, making many battle teams breathless.

Li Hao smiled secretly.

However, this does not matter, in the league's competition rules, there are only strong and weak.

In Summoner's Rift, there are only ten people at most.

It is not easy to put together a team that can defeat the Snake team led by him.

At the final hurdle, Li Hao didn't want to see any unexpected situations happen.

After the afternoon session, Chris proposed to start training in the evening, and Li Hao was the first to respond.

In the next few days, in addition to eating, sleeping and some simple exercises, Snake has been preparing for the game in the training room provided by Riot.

Because the training rooms are very close together, the other three teams were a little anxious when they saw Snake turning off the lights very late.

A guy who is better than you is working harder than you now.

Damn, this is so uncomfortable.

As a result, the four World Championship teams started the involution mode before the semi-finals.

Everyone has a vague illusion that they will be eliminated from the competition field if they miss the training match for half an hour.

On KT's side, Mata's face, which was already very dark, has become a lot darker now.

When we were eating in the restaurant in the morning, many people were wearing Hatch.

The competitive status of the four teams spread quickly, which made many players feel emotional.

Everyone worked hard for the championship.

At the same time, they are also looking forward to the next game.

What makes IG, RNG and KT secretly happy is that Snake is finally not so invincible in training matches.

Li Hao's condition seemed to have fluctuated.

In fact, Li Hao really wanted to continue taking it seriously, but the uniforms of the Snake Team were flustered after seeing it.

The amount of training in these two days is already heavy. If I get injured, wouldn't I be a Muggle?

Therefore, under the strong advice of Chris and others, Li Hao was forced to fish.

He was a bit dumbfounded. He wanted to complete his training well, but he was forced to take advantage of the situation by the club. Is that okay?

Flandre on the side cried with envy. He also wanted to fish, but Chris and others stood by and urged them every day.

In the words of the Snakes team's front office, Li Hao took a short break, just in time to bring out the potential of others.

When the time comes for the competition, everyone should perform together. Not only will everyone blossom, but the more they can blossom, the greater the chance of winning.

After a few extremely fulfilling days...

Time flies and it comes to October 27th.

At around three o'clock in the afternoon, seats began to fill up at the Universiade Stadium of Gwangju Women's University. The most expensive platinum ticket on site was 42,000 won, equivalent to more than 200 yuan, and the cheapest silver ticket was only 20,000 won.

Tickets are not expensive, and as it approaches 4 o'clock, the venue's tens of thousands of seats are almost full.

Many LPL fans came to the scene.

We can also see a lot of Korean spectators, as well as spectators from other competition regions who still stay in Korea.

Regardless of whether they are teams from this division or not, the world's top teams colliding together to compete in the knockout rounds is very attractive to the league's audience.

As soon as 4 o'clock arrived, members of the IG and RNG teams appeared on time!

After the entrance ceremony, the S8 semi-finals officially started.

"Who do you think will win today?"

Lin Weixiang asked curiously.

Chris and others backstage habitually turned their heads in one direction.

"Don't look at me. I've been playing a lot of training matches these days. You should have noticed that their strengths are very close. It's hard to say who will win."

"I think FNC really helped IG a lot. They lost to an opponent that they didn't value very much. This blow made IG a lot more stable."

Li Hao continued to explain: "In the quarter-finals, IG's progress is visible to the naked eye. They can grow in the game. They have a high ceiling."
To be continued...